Big Sonia, the latest documentary by Leah Warshawski, follows in the socially aware steps of Finding Hillywood, her award-winning 2013 history of the Rwandan film industry. But the Seattle-based filmmaker’s follow-up takes a personal turn: Warshawski’s subject in this...
Work Hard. Play Hard. Give Back. That’s the motto of Seattle-based production company Inflatable Film, as well as the husband and wife duo who run it. Leah Warshawski and Todd Soliday are currently in post-production on their film, Big Sonia, detailing the life of a...
Not everyone is going to want to see your film — and that’s okay. “Finding Hillywood” profiles the very beginning of Rwanda’s film industry and a few of the industry’s pioneers who screen films in their own language on a giant...
Marcie Sillman speaks with 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski and her granddaughter, Seattle-based filmmaker Leah Warshawski. Listen to this short, but powerful radio clip on 94.9 KUOW.
My husband and I were in Shanghai recently (at a few international schools) screening our last film (FINDING HILLYWOOD) and showing a clip from our new film in production, BIG SONIA. Halfway though the clip you see the number tattooed on Sonia’s forearm as she’s...
Thrilled to announce that BIG SONIA has been invited to pitch to networks and broadcasters at the HotDocs Forum in Toronto in April. Only 19 projects from around the world were selected, so this is a huge honor! For a full list of selected projects please visit the...
Sonia Warshawski, or “Big Sonia,” as she is affectionately known, was forced to live in the Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps when she was a teenager during World War II. After the war ended, Warshawski moved to the United...
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BIG SONIA : Not Your Typical Holocaust Survivor Film January 21, 2015 Here’s your daily dose of an indie film in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see?...
